Militaryjuntas in neighbouring burkina faso and mali warned that any Foreign Military intervention in niger, would be considered a Declaration Of War on them. A french mp for emmanuel macron s Renaissance Party spoke to the bbc about the countrys Evacuation Mission and said paris was left with no other choice. Translation we estimate that a few hundred people french people wish to leave, and have clearly expressed this intention, since we know that the tradition between European Countries is to show solidarity. If other European Countries decide to organise your evacuations, which is possible, we would Work Together to evacuate those who want to leave. Niger is a key part of africas sahel region which stretches from the atlantic to the red sea. Burkina faso and mali, have also seen recent military coups, and say, they would come to the defence of their neighbour. On sunday, the Regional Bloc ecowas made up of 15 west african countries, gave the coup leaders in niger one week to restore
recall petition in her constituency and that can remove a lawn marker if 10% or more of registered voters signed the petition, there s a price that threshold and she has been stripped of her seat and there would no be a by election in that seat which would be an interesting test of support between labour and the snp but that news just breaking. we were anticipating that news but margit ferrier losing her seat after that recall petition. we will have more in the story later on in our programme. in the women s world cup england easily beat china to make it through to the knock out stage. the lionesses won 6 1 and now qualify as group winners. elsewhere denmark have beaten haiti, to qualify second in group d. earlier, defending champions the usa suffered a huge scare, against world cup debutants, portugal before scraping through.